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Fertility Spectrum
270 Women Reveal How They Really Feel About Their Fertility
Cory Stieg
Oct 21, 2019
Fertility Diaries
I’m 31, Have Unexplained Infertility, And IVF Only Cost Me $300. This Is ...
You
Oct 21, 2019
Mothership
Is Mixing Your Pee With Bleach A Reliable Pregnancy Test?
Erika W. Smith
Oct 18, 2019
Wellness
What Perineal Massage Actually Does — & How To Get Started
As you prepare to give birth, you might take a childbirth class, practice patterned breathing, and pack a hospital bag. You might also consider starting to
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Erika W. Smith
Wellness
How Traveling Helped Me Heal From My Miscarriage
Today is the day a tiny screaming bundle of joy should have been placed on my chest. I should have been staring into my baby’s eyes, but instead I’m st
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Catherine Lux
LGBTQ+
Mattel Just Launched A Gender-Neutral Doll
Open up a child’s toy box, and you’ll see a big difference between dolls coded as girls and those coded as boys. Even if they don’t have big breasts
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Erika W. Smith
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Parenthood
40 Women On Their Post-Baby Sex Lives
The doctor tells you to wait six weeks. Then what? We asked mothers to be brutally honest about post-partem sex. Here’s what they told us.
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Entertainment News
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Theme Music: Kieran Culkin & Wife Wel...
Everyone’s favorite Succession miscreant is now a dad. Luckily, I trust Kieran Culkin and Jazz Charton with a living thing waaaay more than the actor
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Kathryn Lindsay
Body
Honey, Yams, & Legs In The Air: Which Of These Fertility Tricks A...
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Erika W. Smith
Health News
Whitney Port: What I Learned From My Miscarriage
I am a mother, and I had a miscarriage. Until just recently, I had no idea how common it was for these two seemingly opposite realities to coexist. Having
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Whitney Port
Parenthood
The Future Of Baby Food Is Sleek, Organic & Rooted In Science
It’s no secret that going organic is trendy. People want quality and transparency in everything from their produce to their beauty products these days. A
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Molly Longman
Parenthood
These Photos Celebrate The Beauty Of Postpartum Bodies
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Erika W. Smith
Fertility Diaries
I'm 40, Have Little Savings, & Just Spent $26K On IVF. This Is My...
Welcome to Refinery29’s Fertility Diaries, where people chronicle their joyous, painful, and sometimes complicated paths to parenthood. History: Two Mond
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You
Health Trends
Antinatalism: The Popular Reddit Movement To Stop Procreation
In the August issue of Elle, the singer Miley Cyrus revealed how she feels about having kids in the future. “We’re getting handed a piece-of-shit p
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Cory Stieg
Kylie Jenner
This Is Kylie Jenner's Best Parenting Advice
One can only imagine what it was like growing up with Kris Jenner as your mother. Beyond the wild antics and “you're doing amazing, sweetie̶
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Cory Stieg
Shopping
Everything You Need From Lauren Conrad’s Amazon Baby Registry
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Amanda Randone
Sex
How Breastfeeding Changes Your Sex Life
Breastfeeding means some major changes for your body. Along with producing milk to feed your baby, your breasts will likely become larger and may feel unco
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Erika W. Smith
Wellness
Shawn Johnson Opens Up About Her Pregnancy Complications
Olympic gold medalist Shawn Johnson wants people to know that the journey to motherhood isn’t always a straight line. There are ups, downs, tears, and br
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Molly Longman
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Parenthood
Whitney Port: How I Balance My Career & Family
Sitting down to write this article, I had all kinds of tips on goal setting, self-care, prioritization, and workdays to weekends running through my head. I
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Whitney Port
Wellness
Morning Sickness Sucks — Here’s When It Ends
Pregnancy isn’t all glowing skin and lustrous hair: there’s also the need to pee all the time, back pain, and vomiting. Yes, we’re talking about morn
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Erika W. Smith
Wellness
Why Olympic Track Star Allyson Felix Signed With Athleta After Be...
Allyson Felix has always been “a planner.” But, over the last year, the famed track and field star has faced challenges even the most meticulous people
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Molly Longman
Parenthood
Prince Harry Reveals How Many Kids He & Meghan Markle Want
Prince Harry revealed how many kids he sees in his and Meghan Markle’s future in a British Vogue article Tuesday. In a seemingly off-the-cuff comment, Pr
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Molly Longman
Mind
Pregnancy Mood Swings Are Normal — But That Doesn’t Mean They’re ...
We’ve all heard about pregnancy mood swings — and while they might be joked about, they make total sense. “I think of the combination of biological,
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Erika W. Smith
Mental Health Awareness
Why Pregnancy Can Make Your Anxiety So Much Worse
By definition, anxiety means worrying about the future or ruminating on the past — and many people spend the 10-month period of pregnancy doing exactly t
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Cory Stieg
Sex School
What You Need To Know About Pelvic Floor Muscles
No matter what sexist myths and insults say, your vagina can’t become “loose” from having a lot of sex, or a lot of sexual partners. We talked to Lau
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Erika W. Smith
Gender Nation
Why Aren't We All Using These Adorable Gender-Neutral Terms?
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Kasandra Brabaw
Wellness
How To Tell If You Have A Heat Rash
Summer weather does some weird things to your skin: You might get sunburnt; you tend to get more mosquito bites; and if things are really sweltering, you c
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Cory Stieg
Body
Why Pregnant Women Swear By The Magic Of Preggie Pops
There's a common stereotype about pregnant people that they're always ravenous and craving some random food. And while pregnancy cravings can cer
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Cory Stieg
Health Trends
Meghan Markle Gave Birth In A Hospital After All
According to a birth certificate released today, Meghan Markle gave birth to Archie Harrison at Portland Hospital in Westminster, not at Frogmore Cottage,
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Cory Stieg
Parenting
11 Very Different Stories On Having Children (Or Not)
In order to have a more open and compassionate dialogue around the many routes to parenthood, we asked 11 people and families: What was your fertility jour
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Molly Longman
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